I just installed Gentoo on my Ultra 10 and was curious as to what I could do with it in the way of leisurely activities.

I installed xine and tried to play a DivX file. Alas, it seems as if the UltraSparc 440 in my box might be a little underpowered for it (though I'm hoping there might be some optimizations to make it run better). Though I figure if I could get DivX playing properly, DVD's would decode without a problem (no DVD drive in yet though).

At any rate, I'm curious as to what kinds of systems people can decode MPEG2/4 on without any problems.

I think the x86 versions of Mplayer and Xine use the windows codecs which have been heavily optimized. What CFLAGS are you using?_________________Inspiron 4100 & Sun UltraAXe
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The way you feel about organized religion is the same way I feel about organized socialism.

I would like to think MPEG2 would decode just fine, but I would also think that MPEG4 *should* decode just find given that I would think a 440MHz UltraSparc IIi should perform around a PII 500 (more-or-less). A 500MHz P2/3 can decode DivX...

Here is some info on getting Mach64 accelleration working under Linux on non-intel systems._________________Inspiron 4100 & Sun UltraAXe
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The way you feel about organized religion is the same way I feel about organized socialism.

Yes, but if the acceleration isn't working/enabled on the Creator3D card it will be offloading the image rendering to the CPU (cpu will be drawing the video after decoding vs the card drawing the video after decoding) and do a software video overlay. If possible try to see if trying the onboard ATI video shows a difference in video speed.

...with regards to your more current posts, I'm not sure how one can enable acceleration since (AFAIK) I have to use the sunffb driver (which I assume, perhaps wrongly, is as accelerated as it's going to get)

I'm installing Gentoo on my 300MHz Ultra AXe system. I'll let you know how well it decodes video._________________Inspiron 4100 & Sun UltraAXe
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The way you feel about organized religion is the same way I feel about organized socialism.